The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-29
PASTOR AND PEOPLE.

eve will sing the 319ih hymn" said the
minister at the close OF pathetic funeral
sermon. st was fayorite with the re-
MAINS"
Layman-Deacon Jones is Prohibition
ist, is he not? Another Layman-I think
so. / saw him in crockery store the other
day buying jug.
One of the oldest philanthropies in Lon
con is the Spectack mission. The object
is the gratuitous supply Of speCtacles to the
needy, aud, at the same time, the distribu-
ton of the scriptures.
An Chic man, who has Just returned
from Texas, surprises his local paper with
the statement of great moral improTe-
ment il that country. he says they no
longer hang q man for being Baptist.
Managing Editor-John, didn't you get
that funeral ] sent you after yesterday? !
don't see it in the paper. Eyes, sir, but
I had to put it under the heading 'Amuse
ments, cause got it up kind OF funny"
MAY l ask what the middle in your
rame signifies, Miss Ballion2'' Certainly,
Mr.. De Crashhe. 1t stands for SHAKER"
"SbsZzer?" "Yes; | was named after an
eminent woman mentioned in the scrip
lures, Belle Shazzer."
"If l had the power" said Canon WILDER
force in bis fremont Temple lecture to the
y
| would add this: From the idle pomp OF
a magnificent service and an anchristlike
life good Lord deliver u.s. "
TIE State OF Nebraska, in which the gen.
eral assembly met, received its first mis-
sionary in 1856. a synod OF i've presbv-
teries was organized IN 1874 with 100
churches. Now it hiss 207 churches. thirty
seven selt-supporting, with 800 members.
"What Is the church for?' asked a re-
| ligious weekly. Well. we'll If our sa-
cred contemporary does not know what
| the church is for We think it is about time
! fer q revival Of religion in Its town. The
| church is to save the ministers the expense
| Of hiring hall.
1t is stated that the money given by the
women of the Presbyterian church in the
United States for the past sixteen years
| foots up s., 80 O00-representing the entire
| support of more than 200 women mission
| aries, 200 native Bible-readers and more
than $50 schools.
81 don't see why you can't keep awake
| in church. said the pastor; 81 am there as
| long as you are, and l don't have to sleep
| half the time "Oh, we'll" replied the
deacon, you Just sit down in the pew and
| let me preach, and I'll bet q new organ
you couldn't keep your eyes open ten min
utes."
a ceremony of peculiar interest recently
| occurred at st. Patricks Cathedral, on Fifth
| avenue, New York, waen Archbishop
CoIrigan ordained Rev. Henry Van Rens-
sslser, of the historic Albany family, as a
member OF the priesthood. Mr.. Van Rens-
selser is convert to the Roman Catholic
religion from the Episcopal ministry.
1t is a remarkable fact not generally
| known, that in Ethiopia people number
! ing about 200, 900 have the Old Testament
/ in an Ethiopic version and still adhere
| rigioly 10 the Mosaic ceremonies and laws
! They are the children of Hebrew immi.
| grants, who in the time OF the great dis
| persioD settled in Abyssinia and married
wives of that nation.
The Bishop of Huron has issued a pas.
| toral letter aud formally inhibited all
| churches within the diocese using the fol-
| lowing methods of raising money for eccle-
siastical or parochial purposes: (1) Railing,
throwing OF dice, games of chance, or gam
bling of any kind. t2) All theatrical. dra-
| matte, or impersonating exhibitions,
whether public or private.
The resson a West Virginia preacher
walked into Charleston without any clothes
on and looking like piece of raw beef,
was because he met bear two miles out of
| town, and the bear wanted to have a little
upon the Lord fer the first ten minutes,
| but after that used his jack. knife and club,
and Satan was finally put to rout.
Bishop Watterson has issued a circular
| to the clergy of Columbia Diocese request
ing that they ask the people to say alter
| Dateiy in their masses from now until the
LIST OF October one prayer one day and the
| other the next to obtain Gods blessing
| upon the crops and harvests and upon all
| the labors of the people. and to avert dis
eafes, ten pests and other calamities.
The pope's gift to Queen Victoria, on the
occasion OF her jubilee, consists OF mo.
sale reproduction OF Rapbaefs fresco rep,
| resenting an allegorical figure of Poetry
| The work was executed in the Vatican,
| Mgr. Scilla conveyed the gift 70 England
accompanied by Fathers Ialisca and Meri-
two young priests of the Ecclesiastical
| Academy, whom the pope will, in honor
I of the occasion, create bishops.
The mortality of the colored people CT
New Orleans during the first ten years OF
freedom was fifty.two per 1000; during
the last ter years Il has been forty-one, q
decrease of barely 20 per cent, while the
mortality OF the whites has, with better
ssnitary methods, been reduced 80 per
| cent. This suggests 10 the TimesDemo.
cTst TO- ay: There is no better field for
mitslof, work than this Those who have
given money for the higher education Of
the colored people and established colleges